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By:: Andrea Meno

February 06, 2022

11 Proposed Saturday Night Live Movies That We Never Got To See

Welcome to ComedyNerd, Cracked's deep-dive series on funny business. (Also, you can stay up to date with the ComedyNerd newsletter -- sign up here.)

You might think they cranked out way more SNL movies than they should've ... but, it turns out, they were kind of restrained. Here's 11 proposed SNL movies that never ended up getting made:

11 SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MOVIE

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THE SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE MOVIE ALMOST ENDED UP HAPPENING. VINOLA SM ARE Apparently, it was supposed to be a feature-length collection of movie-related sketches, and the idea was floated in 1990. There was even a full-length script, but the movie never got off the ground. — Source

10 STEFON

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THEY TALKED ABOUT MAKING A MOVIE BASED ON SNL'S STEFON AT ONE POINT. As John Mulaney said the film would be kind of like 24 Hour Party People, so like a narrative documentary where he is the correspondent on SNL Weekend Update. — Source

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9 PEEPERS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN AN ALTERNATE UNIVERSE, WE GOT TO SEE A MOVIE BASED ON SNL'S PEEPERS SKETCH. And that universe is really different - because the Peepers script that exists was written as a joke by comedy writer Justin Becker, but it's apparently still really funny. — Source

8 AN AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM WE NEARLY GOT AN AMBIGUOUSLY GAY DUO AS A FULL-LENGTH MOVIE. A G It was supposed to star Jimmy Fallon and Alec Baldwin, but things just didn't work out - apparently, the stumbling block was the ownership of the characters. — Source

7 KEY PARTY

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM SETH MEYERS PITCHED' KEY PARTY IN THE MID-2000S TO PARAMOUNT STUDIOS. Apparently. it was supposed to be about a couple looking to spice up their love life by going to a key party, which in turn threatens to destroy their marriage. — Source

6 X-PRESIDENTS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THERE'S AN X-PRESIDENTS MOVIE SCRIPT THAT'LL PROBABLY NEVER GET MADE. Robert Smigel said, I wrote a crazy Ex-Presidents movie with Adam McKay that was just meant to be completely silly and very cheap. I was just trying to get it produced for like, $3 million. — Source

5 DIETER

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM AFTER AUSTIN POWERS BECAME A HIT, DIETER ALMOST DID, TOO. Based on Mike Myers' sketch about a West German TV show host, it was supposed to feature Will Ferrell - but it never got off the ground. — Source

4 COFFEE TALKS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM IN THE '90S, THEY WANTED TO MAKE A MOVIE BASED ON SNL'S COFFEE TALKS SKETCHES. Studios wanted something that'd be as successful as Mike Myers' Wayne's World, so they hit up SNL sketches for material - and, for some reason, sketches like Coneheads got picked over Myers' Coffee Talk. — Source

3 BILL SWERSKI'S SUPERFANS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM THERE'S A SCRIPT WRITTEN FOR A BILL SWERSKI'S SUPERFANS MOVIE. BANKA CHICAGO Bulls el Jordan CHICAGO QUINO PINIA Chicken Chicogo olls It was written by Bob Odenkirk and Robert Smigel, and it's about Superfans traveling the country amid a football strike. Chances are it'll never get made, though. — Source

2 HANS AND FRANZ: THE GIRLY MAN DILEMMA

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM WE'LL PROBABLY NEVER GET TO SEE HANS AND FRANZ: THE GIRLY MAN DILEMMA. Dana Carvey says it was kind of like Austin Powers in a sense, written with Robert Smigel and Conan O'Brien. It was really cool, it was just very heavy on Arnold and Arnold decided not to do it at the last second. — Source

1 CONEHEADS

COMEDY NERD CRACKED.COM AT ONE POINT, THEY WERE GOING TO MAKE A CONEHEADS ANIMATED SERIES. They made a 22-minute animated movie that was originally supposed to be a pilot, but the series never took off. — Source

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